Start Your Engines Exhibit

Date: Aug 25 through Aug 31

Plainview photographer and race car driver Harold Mauck lived life in the fast lane. His amazing collection of photos documenting northeastern Nebraska's post-World war II culture of stock car racing is featured in our new exhibit on the first floor of the Nebraska History Museum. The exhibit features a selection of Mauck's best photographs showing all aspects of Nebraska stock car racing history.
In addition to the photographs, the exhibit features cars and objects on loan from the Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed, as well as items...

MONA: There’s an App for That 2.0

Date: Apr 9 through Jul 14

Location: Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE

MONA: There’s an App for That 2.0
April 9 – July 14, 2019
Launching its mobile app in 2017, the Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) continues to add content. Viewers browse through highlights from MONA’s permanent collection, listen to audio commentary, peruse a guide on how to look at art, and take a MONA quiz. This exhibition features the second selection of works for the MONA app – significant collection pieces including those by artists Kent Bellows, Aaron Douglas, Gertrude Kasebier, and Ed Ruscha. The MONA app is available to download...

A River Runs Through It

Date: Feb 26 through Jul 21

Location: Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE

A River Runs Through It
February 26 – July 21, 2019
In Paul A. Johnsgard’s book, Crane Music: A Natural History of American Cranes, the author writes, “There is a river in the heart of North America that annually gathers together the watery largess of melting Rocky Mountain snowfields and glaciers and spills wildly down the eastern slopes of Colorado and Wyoming. Reaching the plains, it quickly loses its momentum and begins to spread out and flow slowly across Nebraska from west to east. As it does so, it cuts a sinuous tracery through...

Compelled To Tell: Form

Date: Jan 29 through May 19

Location: Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE

Compelled To Tell: Form
January 29 – May 19, 2019
During the making process, multiple visual possibilities are resonating in the mind of an artist. Simultaneously, instinct and conscious thought compel the artist. Ideally, the artwork soon has an independent energy. Visually, the term form can be applied to an entire artwork, identifying the work as either a painting or a sculpture for example. Within an artwork, form refers to actual shapes and spaces in a sculpture or the illusion of three-dimensional shapes in a painting. How an artist...

Alison O'Daniel: Heavy Air and Lui Shtini: Tempos

Date: Apr 4 through Jun 15

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts invites the public to two new solo exhibitions illustrating the allusive and enigmatic nature of sound and form, "Alison O’Daniel: Heavy Air" and "Lui Shtini: Tempos," on view April 4–June 15, 2019.
"Alison O’Daniel: Heavy Air"
Through collaborations with composers and musicians as well as the experiences of deaf and hard of hearing friends regarding sound, O’Daniel’s work aims at building a visual, aural, and haptic vocabulary as a means of storytelling. In "Heavy Air," O’Daniel continues her...

SAVAGES & PRINCESSES-THE PERSISTENCE of NATIVE AMERICAN STEREOTYPES

Date: Apr 6 through May 25

Savages and Princesses: The Persistence of Native American Stereotypes will be on display at the Red Cloud Opera House from April 6 to May 25, 2019. The exhibit brings together thirteen Native American contemporary visual artists, with the goal of countering ubiquitous stereotypes. The exhibition explores common Native American stereotypes and utilizes humor, emotion, subtlety, shock, and irony to encourage viewers to question and challenge these falsehoods. The telling is honest and incisive. Images and styles are created from traditional,...

Come on Eileen! or Charlie and Barley Beer Factory

Date: May 2 through May 11

Repeats: WEEKLY, 20190512T045959Z times

The Florentine Players' 55th Annual Melodrama
In tribute to the classic, "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", this year's Melodrama offering centers on a hard-working orphaned hero, Charlie Bucket. Charlie works alongside his girlfriend, Eileen, as a janitor but dreams of one day becoming the next great Harry Houdini, much to the chagrin of Eileen's family, who own the bar. The show takes place during prohibition, so times are tough in the bar and brewery business. However, the world becomes ignited with excitement when it is announced a...

Come on Eileen! or Charlie and Barley Beer Factory

Date: May 2 through May 11

Repeats: WEEKLY, 20190512T045959Z times

The Florentine Players' 55th Annual Melodrama
In tribute to the classic, "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", this year's Melodrama offering centers on a hard-working orphaned hero, Charlie Bucket. Charlie works alongside his girlfriend, Eileen, as a janitor but dreams of one day becoming the next great Harry Houdini, much to the chagrin of Eileen's family, who own the bar. The show takes place during prohibition, so times are tough in the bar and brewery business. However, the world becomes ignited with excitement when it is announced a...

Come on Eileen! or Charlie and Barley Beer Factory

Date: May 2 through May 11

Repeats: WEEKLY, 20190512T045959Z times

The Florentine Players' 55th Annual Melodrama
In tribute to the classic, "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", this year's Melodrama offering centers on a hard-working orphaned hero, Charlie Bucket. Charlie works alongside his girlfriend, Eileen, as a janitor but dreams of one day becoming the next great Harry Houdini, much to the chagrin of Eileen's family, who own the bar. The show takes place during prohibition, so times are tough in the bar and brewery business. However, the world becomes ignited with excitement when it is announced a...

Junior Curator Show: Underscoring Line

Date: May 10 through Aug 11

Location: Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE

Junior Curator Show: Underscoring Line
May 10 – August 11, 2019
A select group of high school students works with the Museum of Nebraska Art staff to conceptualize, select, and install an exhibition of artworks drawn from MONA’s collection. The experiential learning expands their knowledge of art, museums, and careers. The curation process begins with an exploration of the role of the visual elements in an artwork. Each element functions uniquely, line being perhaps the most ubiquitous.
Exhibition Reception: May 10 • 4:00 p.m.
The...

Barn Quilt Workshop - Grand Island

Date: May 17

You will be creating your own 2’ x 2’ barn quilt during this workshop. You’ll begin with a preprimed board and go through each step of drafting, taping and painting. You will leave with a finished barn quilt or with...

Sculpture Garden Series: Les Bruning

Date: May 17 through Oct 6

Location: Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE

Sculpture Garden Series: Les Bruning
May 17 – October 6, 2019
The 2019 featured artist for MONA’s Sculpture Garden Series is Les Bruning, a nationally recognized sculptor who works in metal casting and welding. The focus for this exhibition is his large, totemic works, some that emit sound as well as light. Based in Omaha, Bruning’s career spans over 40 years.